Steem Fantasy Premier League - Gameweek 20 Review

Gameweek 20 fixtures:

Gameweek 20 is the last gameweek in year 2018 and the match with most focus on will be the match between Liverpool and Arsenal. League leaders Liverpool remain unbeaten this season and have won their last eight Premier League matches.
Arsenal, meanwhile, have only two wins from their last five matches and draw at Brighton in. This will be the 227th meeting between these two teams in all competitions. Liverpool have 86 wins compared to Arsenal's 79. There have been 61 draws.
Arsenal are without a win in their last five trips to Anfield, conceding two or more goals in each match and 17 in total. Arsenal’s defense haven’t been convincing in recent matches and they’ve got several injury worries int their backline.

Liverpool's Roberto Firmino has been directly involved in eight goals in his last six PL matches against Arsenal scoring five goals and three assists. Only Robbie Fowler, with nine goals, has netted more PL goals against Arsenal for Liverpool than Firmino.

Liverpool are likely to field a similar side that defeated Newcastle earlier in the week. Liverpool have the luxury of a relatively relaxed fixture list around this period so they should not need to rotate. Naby Keita was back the squad against Newcastle and and could be starting if Klopp decides to go with one midfielder more. This would mean that Shaqiri drops to the bench though.

Arsenal have more problems and will be without major names like Mkhitaryan and Bellerin Laurent Koscielny came off with a knock on Wednesday and might not make it to Anfield. Mustafi, who has missed Arsenal’s last five games could though be able to play. Ozil was subbed out at half-time on Wednesday and it could mean that he drops to the bench at Anfield or then he is more rested and starts. The Arsenal starting lineup is harder to predict.

Possible starting lineups:

Liverpool: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Lovren, Van Dijk, Robertson; Wijnaldum, Fabinho, Keita; Salah, Firmino, Mane

Arsenal: Leno; Lichtsteiner, Sokratis, Koscielny, Kolasinac; Xhaka, Torreira, Guendouzi; Ramsey, Aubameyang, Iwobi

Steem-pick

My last steem-pick, Rashford, scored in gw 18 but couldn’t follow that up with more attacking returns in gw 19. My steem-pick for gw 20 is Felipe Anderson (7.3m). After scoring two goals and managing five “goal attempts” and two “created chances” against Southampton in gw 19 this man is on fire. He has had five double figure score this season and has scored seven goals since the beginning of November. He’s now playing Burnley,a team that lost 5-1 to Everton a few days ago. I’m not feeling confident going into this gameweek without him in my team.

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